apple-touch-icon
apple touch icon svg support
Unfortunately iOS doesn’t support SVG icons at the moment. And it will probably not have support soon. Also android doesn’t support it. Update: It looks like Safari is starting to support SVG favicons See: http://caniuse.com/#feat=link-icon-svg To add a svg icon for pinned tabs within Safari you need to add: <link rel=”mask-icon” href=”https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15710047/website_icon.svg” color=”red”>
Apple touch icon isn’t showing up on the home screen
I had the same problem. The solution is to remove the password protection on the website.
What are the correct pixel dimensions for an apple-touch-icon?
It seems that Apple guidelines as of August 3, 2010 now include the “High resolution” images (for iPhone 4) in their “required” icon sizes. Looks like we need to provide both a 57×57 and a 114×114 image now, as well as a 640×960 title image. See Custom Icon and Image Creation Guidelines (Javascript required) which … Read more
Apple Touch icon for websites
Minimalist solution – Recommended A common practice is to create a single 180×180 icon, which is the highest expected resolution, and let the iOS devices scale it down as needed. It is declared with: <link rel=”apple-touch-icon” href=”https://stackoverflow.com/path/to/apple-touch-icon.png”> Exhaustive solution – Not recommended Apple specs specify new sizes for iOS7: 60×60 76×76 120×120 152×152 And also … Read more
Favicons – Best practices [closed]
Favicon is way more complex than what it sounds. 10 years ago, favicon.ico was the only needed item. Then, there was the touch icon, then multiple touch icons dues to the various iOS devices screen resolutions, then there was the tile icon for Windows… Some answers here are very comprehensive – and overwhelming (all this, … Read more
Why am I getting error for apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png
I guess apple devices make those requests if the device owner adds the site to it. This is the equivalent of the favicon. To resolve, add 2 100×100 png files, save it as apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png and apple-touch-icon.png and upload it to the root directory of the server. After that, the error should be gone. I noticed … Read more